Associate Professor Simon McCarthy-Jones

Associate Investigator

Contact Details

External Address

School of Medicine,
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Profile

I am currently performing research into the nature and causes of hearing voices, undertaking a number of international collaborative projects in this area, and developing trials of new therapeutic interventions for people distressed by hearing voices. Specially my research covers:

• The phenomenology of voice-hearing (what the voices people hear are like).
• The history of voice-hearing.
• The role of traumatic life events in causing voice-hearing.
• The role of genetics in causing voice-hearing.
• The neurology of voice-hearing (structural white and grey matter changes using DTI / freesurfer)
• Novel interventions to help people who hear voices and are distressed by them.
• The physical health effects of child abuse.

ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award [DE140101077] (2014 - 2017) "Whom may I say is speaking? The cognitive neuropsychology of our thoughts, and what makes them our own." McCarthy-Jones, S. ($361,642)

Book Chapters

McCarthy-Jones, S. (In Press). Psychosis: What was it, what is it? In F. Waters & M. Stephane (Eds.), The Assessment of Psychosis: A Reference Book and Rating Scales for Research and Practice (pp. 3-16). New York, USA: Routledge.

Jones, S.R. (2009). The neuropsychology of covert and overt speech: Implications for the study of private speech in children and adults. In A. Winsler, C. Fernyhough, and I. Montero (Ed.), Private speech, executive functioning, and the development of verbal self-regulation (pp. 69-82). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

McCarthy-Jones, S., & Resnick, P. (2014). Listening to voices: The use of phenomenology to differentiate malingered from genuine auditory verbal hallucinations. International Journal of Psychiatry and the Law, 37(2), 183-189.

Jones, S.R. & Fernyhough, C (2007). A new look at the diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia: the primacy of uncontrollable and social-evaluative situations. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 33, 1171-1177.

Jones, S.R. & Fernyhough, C. (2007). The Roles of Locus of Control and Self-Esteem in Hallucination- and Delusion-Proneness in a Non-Clinical Sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 1087-1097.

Conference Presentations, Colloquia, and other presentations

McCarthy-Jones, S. (2012, September). Gods, brains and people: The history, causes and treatments of auditory verbal hallucinations (‘hearing voices’). Presentation given at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney.

McCarthy-Jones, S. (2012, July). A brief history of hearing voices. Paper presented at the Listening to Voices: The Past, Present and Future of the Experience of Hearing Voices Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney.

McCarthy-Jones, S. (2012, April). What do know about auditory verbal hallucinations (‘hearing voices’)? History, neurology and psychology. Colloquium at the University of Sydney, Sydney.

McCarthy-Jones, S. (2012, April). Auditory verbal hallucinations (‘hearing voices’): From world to brain and back again. Invited colloquium at the University of New South Wales Seminar Series, Sydney.

McCarthy-Jones, S. (2012, March). Listening to voices: Where are we in our attempts to help people with distressing auditory verbal hallucinations? Invited colloquium at the University of Wollongong, Wollongong.